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By Emma Batha LONDON, Dec 2 – Female genital mutilation can be “wiped out in a generation” across the globe, Britain’s interior minister Amber Rudd said on Thursday, as she called for everyone to pull together to tackle this “horrendous crime”. Rudd, who took office four months ago, said she was determined to see Britain’s first

DAKAR, March 24 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Sudanese security forces have used threats, assault and rape to silence female human rights activists, forcing many to abandon their work or flee the country, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said on Thursday. Government officials have targeted women involved in protests and rights campaigns, including students, teachers, lawyers and

JERUSALEM, Feb 7 – A Sudanese migrant stabbed and wounded a soldier in Israel on Sunday and was shot dead, police said, adding the suspect appeared to have lashed out in solidarity with the Palestinians. If that motive is confirmed, it would be the first such attack by a foreigner during a four-month-old surge of

KHARTOUM, Jan 28 – Sudan President Omar Hassan al-Bashir ordered the opening of his country’s border with South Sudan for the first time since the south’s secession in 2011, state news agency SUNA reported on Wednesday. “President Omar al-Bashir issued a decree today ordering the opening of borders with the state of South Sudan and